What’s really crazy is Silver Lake is not even considered a rich neighborhood. Most people who live there rent, and it’s not the highest rent neighborhood by a long shot. In fact, less than a decade ago, it was an affordable neighborhood, at least to rent in.

The city should really be working with a small business owner like this. They could store the vehicles in one of their impound lots for him. Charge a nominal fee for towing, paperwork and storage. Win-win. /s

these are not rich people. in Cali $1.5M home is a starter for us. these are dual income hard working families, who are living paycheck to paycheck to pay their mortgage.

You nailed it. Even a $1.5 million house in nearby San Fernando, Glendale or Burbank is like a trashy median home in Ohio somewhere. The people living in this neighborhood were middle class people suddenly discovering that the homes they were barely able to afford at $700K just 8 years ago is now $1.5 million, and…

Go fuck yourself. “The people in the neighborhood are rich so they shouldn’t be able to complain about anything affecting their daily lives that I too would be upset about in the same situation, but because they have more money than me, I hate them and am fine with their suffering, so yeah”

Thank you. This site is a weird combination of car enthusiast and anti-capitalist at the same time, but the notion that a $1.5M California home makes them “elite” is just stupid.

This may call for some drastic action... I abhor vandals who key cars, but if the Hi-Tech garage owner had to reimburse a few 10s of his customers for full resprays of their fancy cars, he would be out of business in a jiffy...

I sold my 100 year old 1k sq/ft 2BR/2BA adobe with a shitty roof in the middle of South Central (all of a block from where Nipsey Hussle got shot) for $720k last year.

Silver Lake is one of the most exclusive and expensive neighborhoods in L.A.

they get tickets but this shop does not

Still sounds like an insincere douche to me.

“It’s a little hard to feel for people that have money in certain situations”

I would think the *owners* of the fancy cars would be less than thrilled about having them parked on the street. If I knew a shop was doing that with my car I wouldn’t be taking my car there.

I don’t think people who actually do this are looking for any reward or money, they just like the thrill and are generally just a bad bunch of people

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. There is a solution.

Worth also bearing in mind that the US has probably the cheapest fuel costs in the western world (yes I know this is a US-centric forum, but it DOES have global reach).

This. Sedans are also much more reasonable in price than SUVs and sports cars in today’s inflated market. One of my buddies is looking to sell his older Ford Fusion and get a lightly used IS300 or Genesis, and we’ve found that the prices on those are not a ton higher than they were a few years ago. 

Gross. Nothing is more of a red flag than a self labeled “extreme right wing conservative”. I bet your neighbors absolutely loathe you. 

Yeah, I’m a boomer too. Was once a “conservative,” before it became a religio-criminal conspiracy. Eternally grateful that before my Dad died, after telling him gently but repeatedly that Fox was lying to him all day, every day, he...believed me, and changed the channel. The Baby Boomer generation has almost completed…

Don’t I know it!